PHYS 38500 - Numerical Methods I

Accuracy and precision, convergence, iterative and direct methods. Topics selected from: solution of polynomial equations and linear systems of equations, curve fitting and function approximation, interpolation, differentiation and integration, differential equations. Cross-listed as MATH 38500 and CSCI 38500 so that students in the mathematics and computer science departments can use the course toward the completion of their major requirements.
prereq: MATH 25400
3 hrs
3 cr.